I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Virgil Thomson
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If you are a successful musician, it is not because you are unfortunate enough to have had bad luck or tough enough to have had good luck. It is because you are successful, by your own choice. The world’s problems are too many to be solved with the same old methods. The methods of the past, which failed even on their own terms, do not work on ours.

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